SCOTLAND is facing a third consecutive weekend of stormy weather, with belts of heavy rain, strong winds and even snow expected.

Despite 90 flood warnings being in place across the UK, the Met Office has said conditions, coming in the wake of Storm Ciara and Storm Dennis, are not severe enough to be classed as a storm.

For Scotland, the worst of the weather will come tonight and again tomorrow night. 

Forecaster Marco Petagna said today will bring a respite from the rain in some areas, but there was a warning for high winds in the north and another band of stormy weather would sweep in from the South West tonight.

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Caroline Douglass, director of incident management at the Environment Agency (EA), said on Friday: "This will be the third weekend of exceptional river levels and stormy weather.

"With the effects of climate change, we need to prepare for more frequent periods of extreme weather like this.

"People need to be aware of their flood risk, sign up to flood warnings, make a flood plan and not to drive or walk through floodwater."

The EA said that river levels have exceeded existing records with the Colne, Ribble, Calder, Aire, Trent, Severn, Wye, Lugg and Derwent among the many rivers where records have been broken.

But the agency said that, even with record river levels, the number of homes flooded has been lower than in other major flood events of the last 20 years.